[Chimera-users] ribbon options disappeared after upgrade

[Bala subramanian]

Hi Elaine,

Thank you so much. I just opened the session you sent and now i see more
ribbon options.


Thanks for your insights,
Bala


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Forgot to mention the ribbon styles won't show up in the menu until the
> NEXT startup (after opening the session).  However, they are available in
> the command line as soon as you open that session, e.g. command:  ribrep
> aitch
>
> Elaine
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> > Dear Bala,
> > These ribbon styles don't come with Chimera, but are user-created and
> saved in your preferences file.  The only styles that come with Chimera
> are:  flat, rounded, edged, and supersmooth. The custom styles would have
> been either created by you, or you could have gotten them inside of some
> session file that you got from somebody else.  They could be created with
> Ribbon Style Editor (in menu under Tools.. Depiction), "Cross Section" tab.
> > <
> http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/ribbonstyle/ribbonstyle.html
> >
> >
> > Generally when you change Chimera versions, you will still have your
> previous preferences file and things like that would stay the same.  So I
> can only say you must be using a different or new preferences file.
> >
> > I attached a session file (for Chimera 1.9 or later) that will "infect"
> your current preferences file with some extra styles when you open it,
> including one named "aitch," but it could be different from the "aitch" you
> had before.   This is better than giving you one of my preferences files
> with the styles, which would also overwrite all your other Chimera
> preferences.
> >
> > Best,
> > Elaine
> > ----------
> > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> > University of California, San Francisco
> >
> > <extra-styles.py>
> >
> >
> > On Nov 25, 2014, at 4:34 AM, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> Within the ribbon option under action tool: i used to have additional
> choices like aitch,wave, octave, etc etc.
> >>
> >> After an ubuntu upgrade, with chimera 1.9 and 1.10 (i tried both).
> These extra options dont appear under ribbon. What is going wrong ?. Do i
> need to install something ?
> >>
> >> Bala
> >>
> >> --
> >> C. Balasubramanian
> >
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C. Balasubramanian
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